TY - JOUR
T1 - Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
T2 - Design and first-year review
AU - Smith, Arfon M.
AU - Niemeyer, Kyle E.
AU - Katz, Daniel S.
AU - Barba, Lorena A.
AU - Githinji, George
AU - Gymrek, Melissa
AU - Huff, Kathryn D.
AU - Madan, Christopher R.
AU - Mayes, Abigail Cabunoc
AU - Moerman, Kevin M.
AU - Prins, Pjotr
AU - Ram, Karthik
AU - Rokem, Ariel
AU - Teal, Tracy K.
AU - Guimera, Roman Valls
AU - Vanderplas, Jacob T.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Work by K E Niemeyer was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (No. ACI-1535065). Work by P Prins was supported by the National Institute of Health (R01 GM123489, 2017-2022). Work by K. Ram was supported in part by The LeonaMand Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (No. 2016PG-BRI004). Work by A Rokem was supported by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Science Foundation (No. 1550224), and the National Institute of Mental Health (No. 1R25MH112480). There was no additional external funding received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The following grant information was disclosed by the authors: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. National Science Foundation: ACI-1535065, 1550224. National Institute of Health: R01 GM123489, 2017-2022. Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust: 2016PG-BRI004. Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. National Institute of Mental Health: 1R25MH112480
Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Work by K E Niemeyer was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (No. ACI-1535065). Work by P Prins was supported by the National Institute of Health (R01 GM123489, 2017-2022). Work by K. Ram was supported in part by The Leona M and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (No. 2016PG-BRI004). Work by A Rokem was supported by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Science Foundation (No. 1550224), and the National Institute of Mental Health (No. 1R25MH112480). There was no additional external funding received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Funding Information:
The following grant information was disclosed by the authors: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. National Science Foundation: ACI-1535065, 1550224.
Funding Information:
1Data Science Mission Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States of America 2School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America 3National Center for Supercomputing Applications & Department of Computer Science & Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America 4Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America 5KEMRI—Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya 6Departments of Medicine & Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America 7Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America 8School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom 9Mozilla Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 10MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America 11Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 12University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America 13University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 14Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America 15eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America 16Data Carpentry, Davis, CA, United States of America 17University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Smith et al.
PY - 2018/2/12
Y1 - 2018/2/12
N2 - This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of the software submitted and providing a mechanism for research software developers to receive credit. While designed to work within the current merit system of science, JOSS addresses the dearth of rewards for key contributions to science made in the form of software. JOSS publishes articles that encapsulate scholarship contained in the software itself, and its rigorous peer review targets the software components: functionality, documentation, tests, continuous integration, and the license. A JOSS article contains an abstract describing the purpose and functionality of the software, references, and a link to the software archive. The article is the entry point of a JOSS submission, which encompasses the full set of software artifacts. Submission and review proceed in the open, on GitHub. Editors, reviewers, and authors work collaboratively and openly. Unlike other journals, JOSS does not reject articles requiring major revision; while not yet accepted, articles remain visible and under review until the authors make adequate changes (or withdraw, if unable to meet requirements). Once an article is accepted, JOSS gives it a digital object identifier (DOI), deposits its metadata in Crossref, and the article can begin collecting citations on indexers like Google Scholar and other services. Authors retain copyright of their JOSS article, releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. In its first year, starting in May 2016, JOSS published 111 articles, with more than 40 additional articles under review. JOSS is a sponsored project of the nonprofit organization NumFOCUS and is an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
AB - This article describes the motivation, design, and progress of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). JOSS is a free and open-access journal that publishes articles describing research software. It has the dual goals of improving the quality of the software submitted and providing a mechanism for research software developers to receive credit. While designed to work within the current merit system of science, JOSS addresses the dearth of rewards for key contributions to science made in the form of software. JOSS publishes articles that encapsulate scholarship contained in the software itself, and its rigorous peer review targets the software components: functionality, documentation, tests, continuous integration, and the license. A JOSS article contains an abstract describing the purpose and functionality of the software, references, and a link to the software archive. The article is the entry point of a JOSS submission, which encompasses the full set of software artifacts. Submission and review proceed in the open, on GitHub. Editors, reviewers, and authors work collaboratively and openly. Unlike other journals, JOSS does not reject articles requiring major revision; while not yet accepted, articles remain visible and under review until the authors make adequate changes (or withdraw, if unable to meet requirements). Once an article is accepted, JOSS gives it a digital object identifier (DOI), deposits its metadata in Crossref, and the article can begin collecting citations on indexers like Google Scholar and other services. Authors retain copyright of their JOSS article, releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. In its first year, starting in May 2016, JOSS published 111 articles, with more than 40 additional articles under review. JOSS is a sponsored project of the nonprofit organization NumFOCUS and is an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
KW - Code review
KW - Computational research
KW - Open-source software
KW - Research software
KW - Scholarly publishing
KW - Software citation
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U2 - 10.7717/peerj-cs.147
DO - 10.7717/peerj-cs.147
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043392618
SN - 2376-5992
VL - 2018
JO - PeerJ Computer Science
JF - PeerJ Computer Science
IS - 2
M1 - e147
ER -